Art of Colonial Latin America (Art and Ideas)

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For over three hundred years, from the era of Christopher Columbus to the struggles for independence around 1820, Latin The usa witnessed an artistic flowering of enormous creativity and originality. In a unique way, the art and architecture of Aztec, Inca and GuaranĂ­ civilizations blended with those of Europe, North Africa and the Far East. In particular, the Spanish and Portuguese empires in Central and South The usa created the climate for a flourishing, diverse and distinct version of Renaissance and Baroque culture, produced under utterly different social and geographic conditions from those found in Europe. The products of this unique culture include one of the most most lavish and visually arresting artistic endeavors and architecture on the planet.

In this energetic overview of the tremendously wealthy and varied artistic output of the area from southern Chile to northern California, Gauvin Alexander Bailey discusses viceregal and missionary in addition to civic and rural architecture, alongside religious and secular painting, sculpture, metalwork, textiles and ceramics. But he also looks back to pre-colonial influences and concludes with an examination of how twentieth-century artists such as Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo interpreted their artistic heritage. Even as of late, the art of the colonial period remains at the centre of Latin American society, culture and identity. The result is a book that provides a new and comprehensive understanding of the entire influences that led to probably the most cosmopolitan artistic outpourings in the whole history of art.

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